Beyond Brahmanical Asceticism: Recent and Emerging Models of Female Hindu Asceticisms in South Asia

In the last 25 years, significant conceptual and interpretive shifts have occurred in the scholarship on asceticism in South Asia that broaden not only ‘what counts’ as asceticism, but also ‘who counts’ as an ascetic. Moreover, the recent surge of anthropological and ethnographic studies, particular...

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Main Author: DeNapoli, Antoinette (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2009
In: Religion compass
Year: 2009, Volume: 3, Issue: 5, Pages: 857-875
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